Ballmer gets a Billion in divideds from MSFT stock every year

So you guys are giving away almost somewhere in the neighborhood of a billion dollars a year... cash out the door. But your net worth is ballooning every year way faster than you can give money away, because of the Microsoft hold? Yeah Microsoft hold, but you may be missing one thing on the Microsoft hold that's important, and that's the size of the dividend check. Ah. Between Microsoft and the other stuff I own, the dividend checks are pretty close to what we give away. So you can look at the appreciation, but we're just above the dividend checks now.